Essay topics: Some people say that in all levels of education, from primary school to universities, too much time spent on learning facts and not enough on learning practical skills. Agree or disagree?
In modern society, education is arguably one of the most essential elements for individual and social development. However, it is argued that both primary and tertiary education overemphasize on theories and conceptual knowledge, thereby downplaying the importance of practical skills and procedural knowledge. The following paragraphs will discuss this view and my own perception.
It is reasonable to believe that students spend an excessive amount of time on learning facts at schools or universities. First of all, the implication of accepting education is primarily to pass all sorts of examinations and attain qualifications; in the light of such fact, most students are more likely to spend a considerable amount of time memorizing those theories and facts rather than reason out the way of applying them in real world. In addition, numerous educationalists believe that universities and colleges have no responsibility and obligation to educate students about practical skills, as those knowledges can be efficiently obtained and assimilated in future workplaces; therefore, it is unnecessary to spending time familiarizing with the skills in advance.
On the other hand, it is also worth mentioning that a number of educational institutions also provides students with sufficient time to enhance their practical skills. Many educators sometimes distribute a variety of individual assignments and team projects to students, which makes great contributions to the development of their practical abilities including technical and communicating skill. For instance, some projects could involve a real case for law students to analysis or a software application for IT students to develop. Therefore, students can gain practical experience by completing the tasks.
In my opinion, it is unquestionable that schools and universities have a tendency to concentrate on facts and theories instead of practical knowledge. However, I still disagree with the view, since I believe that most students are able to develop their practical skills by spending time on coursework.
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Essay evaluation report
a number of educational institutions also provides students with sufficient time
a number of educational institutions also provide students with sufficient time
including technical and communicating skill.
including technical and communicating skills.
for law students to analysis or a software application for IT students to develop.
for law students to analyze or a software application for IT students to develop.
flaws:
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
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No serious flaws found. Double check grammar issues after essay writing.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 7.5 out of 9
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 310 350
No. of Characters: 1730 1500
No. of Different Words: 175 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.196 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.581 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.256 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 135 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 119 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 99 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 68 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.833 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.171 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.364 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.604 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.084 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 722, Rule ID: IT_IS_JJ_TO_VBG[1]
Message: Did you mean 'spend'?
Suggestion: spend
...places; therefore, it is unnecessary to spending time familiarizing with the skills in a...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, so, still, therefore, for instance, in addition, first of all, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.3376753507 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1771.0 1615.20841683 110% => OK
No of words: 310.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.71290322581 5.12529762239 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.32638210343 2.80592935109 119% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.570967741935 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 558.9 506.74238477 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => OK
Sentence length SD: 81.4518859341 49.4020404114 165% => OK
Chars per sentence: 147.583333333 106.682146367 138% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8333333333 20.7667163134 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.5 7.06120827912 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.155889223764 0.244688304435 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0588524699583 0.084324248473 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0519614257683 0.0667982634062 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0918894511804 0.151304729494 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0471321304128 0.056905535591 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.4 13.0946893788 141% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 29.18 50.2224549098 58% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 13.0 7.44779559118 175% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 11.3001002004 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.13 12.4159519038 130% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.72 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 78.4519038076 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 9.78957915832 128% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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